Right place for this I hope!?
I picked up a 1976 Kawasaki KE100 Enduro in a series of trades I made over good ol' Craigslist and I liked the thing, so I decided that I would restore it to look like it once did and hang onto it... In 8 months times I ended up chopping it, slamming it, painting it and decided on making it a street only bike.
Almost done!
It is a 2-stroke however and one of the final components I need is an exhaust. I never really liked 2-stroke exhausts... Expansion chambers were always ugly and they never appealed to me. Question is, can I throw a straight pipe on this bike? I've read that older style 2-strokes had straight pipes and that it would work, I'm just unsure. Single cylinder bike and the stock exhaust is almost straight in itself, but does appear to have a smaller expansion chamber.. It's only a 100cc 2-stroke...
I know it might be louder (and obviously smokey), but I might throw a muffler on the back end that in itself might serve as an expansion chamber. Only reason I bring this up is because this bike has never had a title issued to it, so I'm in the process of getting one. Part of that process is getting it passed an inspection by a police officer. One of the boxes on the inspection form reads "Exhaust System (Good working order, no excessive noise or annoying smoke)"... Let's just hope I get an officer that understands a 2 stroke.... Could always start my quad (4 stroke) that basically has a straight pipe and a muffler next to it to show that 2-strokes really do smoke on purpose lol
Shane
I picked up a 1976 Kawasaki KE100 Enduro in a series of trades I made over good ol' Craigslist and I liked the thing, so I decided that I would restore it to look like it once did and hang onto it... In 8 months times I ended up chopping it, slamming it, painting it and decided on making it a street only bike.
Almost done!
It is a 2-stroke however and one of the final components I need is an exhaust. I never really liked 2-stroke exhausts... Expansion chambers were always ugly and they never appealed to me. Question is, can I throw a straight pipe on this bike? I've read that older style 2-strokes had straight pipes and that it would work, I'm just unsure. Single cylinder bike and the stock exhaust is almost straight in itself, but does appear to have a smaller expansion chamber.. It's only a 100cc 2-stroke...
I know it might be louder (and obviously smokey), but I might throw a muffler on the back end that in itself might serve as an expansion chamber. Only reason I bring this up is because this bike has never had a title issued to it, so I'm in the process of getting one. Part of that process is getting it passed an inspection by a police officer. One of the boxes on the inspection form reads "Exhaust System (Good working order, no excessive noise or annoying smoke)"... Let's just hope I get an officer that understands a 2 stroke.... Could always start my quad (4 stroke) that basically has a straight pipe and a muffler next to it to show that 2-strokes really do smoke on purpose lol
Shane